Monday March 30 Miles Traveled, 4.0 nm We had decided to go back to Matthew Town to get Lorraine’s phone fixed and pick up some water and groceries. We had met a German couple Karl and Hanne on SV Silberwowe who needed to go to check in and invited to come with us on Changes. […]
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Friday, March 27 The morning started early with swells from the SE rocking the boat from 4am onward. After listening to Chris Parker and getting the weather from our area via the Webcast from free WiFi through the BadBoy, we had breakfast and went to town to get a SIM card for our cell phone. […]
Tuesday, March 24 to Thursday, March 26 We left the dock at Puerto Bahia Marina in Samana at 645am and put the Main Sail up in the Bay with one reef. We motor sailed to punta de Genaro then crossed the Canadaiqua Banks and motorsailed NNE to Cano Samana and then turn WNW to Cabo […]
Monday, March 9 We have been having problems with our steaming and mast light, so Bob from Walkabout came early (720am) while the winds were calm to winch Phil up the mast. Phil ws able to get the steaming spreader light working, but determined that there is no current at the top of the mast […]
Tuesday, March 10 Today we rented a car from Hertz. they met us at the Marina Offfice and drove us a few miles to their base where we picked up the car, a Kia. It had good A/C which was very much appreciate since we don’t have it on the boat. We had wanted to […]
Wednesday, March 18 to Thursday, March 19 Miles Traveled: 149.0 nm Wednesday, March 18 We checked with Chris Parker on the best day to leave for our 48 hour, 248nm journery from Boqueron, PR to Luperon, DR. We checked with Walkabout and they agreed that today was the best time to leave. They would leave […]
Saturday March 7 Distance Traveled 24.7 NM We raised the main sail then pulled the anchor and by 6:45 AM we were on our way. We motor sailed out of the bay and turned south to head for the east end of Viaques. We were reaching with a reefed main and reefed jib. so reefed […]
Sunday March 15. Distance traveled 13.2 NM We got going early and rowed the dingy over the the mangroves and a creek Bob told us about. The entrance was narrow with mangrove roots hanging down for us to posh through. Once past the entrance we managed to keep going by using the ors as paddles. […]
Saturday March 14. Distance traveled 39.3 NM We listened to Chris Parker’s weather before we got going. We put up the main as a better downwind sail, started the engine and pulled the anchor at 6:52AM and decided to tow the dinghy. By 7:09 we were motor sailing along the south coast of Puerto […]
Sunday March 8, 2015 Miles Traveled: 50.6 nm We pulled the anchor at 6:12AM and motored out of the harbor at Ensenada Vieques. Our friends Bob and Jeanne on Walkabout left 10 minutes after us. The wind was very light so we kept motoring toward the SE point of Puerto Rico in 6 foot swells. […]
Travels with the Dolsen’s 